One Emmett Charter Township board member isn't going to use township dollars for legal action against another board member after all.

Following a closed session with Township Attorney John Macfarlane on Thursday, the board voted to rescind an Oct. 11 motion made by Trustee Pat Dougherty for the board to retain the services of Fahey Schultz Burzych Rhodes "to represent me in an action against the board member because of his conduct and his slanderous attacks against me."

Dougherty, at Thursday's meeting, explained that actually the motion he made at the Oct. 11 meeting was for him and three other board members: Treasurer Rachelle Myers, Clerk Tracy Myers-Malone and Trustee Dick Brown.

"I just had to do something," he said. "The supervisor [Tim Hill] had moved on. He has another job. He doesn't come into work. We don't have access to him during the day, so we can't get anything done. We've got roads. We've got sewers. We've got all these different issues to deal with and no leadership."

Dougherty said he moved to rescind his Oct. 11 motion "because it's in the best interest of Emmett Township."

"It's in the best interest of all the people that voted for us to be here, and I take it seriously when people say, "Quit acting like that.' Well, I will, but I also expect people to cooperate, and let's move on forward and get some things done in cooperation...not excluding us and saying here's the way we are going to do it," Dougherty said.

Hill said he does come to work at the township every morning, but is also a financial adviser for Raymond James.

"He is just trying to put me in the same classification as Adam Heikkila to have an excuse to do a recall," Hill said.

Bedford Charter Supervisor Heikkila was recently recalled in part for not keeping business hours at the township office.

"There is no regular business hours in a supervisor's line of work," Hill said. "Plus, what's the definition of regular business hours? I am not here 24/7, but I'm here 24/7."

But Hill did say he was pleased Dougherty rescinded the "illegal motion."

"For the benefit of the township, I really appreciate this," he said.

On Oct. 11, Dougherty said he was going to take a stand after putting up with "accusations and slanderous comments" made about him on AccessVision and social media "put out there on the part of one of the board members here."

The township board had a second closed session to discuss pending litigation filed by Emmett Charter Township Building Official Steve Buller for "misclassifying" him as an independent contractor.

Buller also sits on the township's board, so he had to sit out of the closed session.